As I sat dumbstruck in my doctor's office, I heard other words cancer, stage, grade.

Jehane Noujaim I was overwhelmed by the response of the film, for we didn't know whether it would be able to get out there.

I watched it and I'm just I'm blown away by it and its potential to bring voices from around the world, independent voices from around the world, and create a truly democratic, global television.

Her daughter, Rani, a few years older than me, sat in her lap bewildered, not knowing what had happened to the confident woman she once knew as her mother.

So I did and stood amazed every week when these brilliant, grown up poets laughed with me and groaned their sympathy and clapped and told me, Hey, I really felt that too.